Romantic Color Photography
ROMANTIC STYLE
In emphasizing emotion and imagination, romantic art shifted away from the restraint of classicism and neoclassicism that had dominated art in Europe since the Renaissance. Romanticism achieved its greatest popularity in art, literature, music and philosophy between 1780 and 1830, although its expression of individual experiences ranging from awe to passion informed culture in the decades after.
Landscape painting was especially popular during the romantic period, as were nature studies of wild animals and fantasies of exotic lands. Romanticism varied across Europe as it reacted to the rise of industrialization, a more personal relationship with faith that was distanced from the church and the rationalist thinking of the Enlightenment.
British painters such as John Constable and J.M.W. Turner responded dramatically to the light and atmosphere of the natural world, while William Blake conveyed humanity’s connection to the divine in his visionary art. In Germany, the late-18th-century Sturm und Drang, or Storm and Drive, movement, with its probing of the unconscious, inspired a sense of mystery in work by romantic artists such as Caspar David Friedrich and Philipp Otto Runge. In France, where the French Revolution had turned tradition upside down, Théodore Géricault and Eugène Delacroix used lush brushwork to paint monumental canvases with tumultuous scenes of nature and history.
The romantic movement and its subject matter were a significant influence on the Pre-Raphaelites, Symbolists and the American painters of the Hudson River School, as well as on other cultural movements in the 19th and 20th centuries that saw artists build on this perspective in which art was guided by emotion rather than reason.
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Style: Romantic
Liquid Passion
Located in New York, NY
LIQUID PASSION
Photographic print Wood boxed float mounted frame, non reflective glass.
Size 43” x 57.3”, $ 8000, Edition 4 of 10 in total (All sizes)
Others Sizes in the edition:
33...
Category
2010s Romantic Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Photographic Paper, Pigment, Digital Pigment
Daydreams
By Sarah Hadley
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Archival pigment print
Hand printed by Sarah Hadley on Canson Baryta Photo paper
From the series In Between Days
Sarah Hadley is a Los Angeles based artist whose narrative work focuses on issues of female identity and memory.
Hadley's photographs have been exhibited at the Milan Photo...
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2010s Romantic Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper
Italia 2 - Signed limited edition pigment print, Sculpture, Greek god, Mythology
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Italia 2- Large scale photograph by Michael Banks
Archival Pigment print on fiber based paper ( Hahnemühle Photo RAG Baryta 315 gsm )
Limited Editions of 5 , signed + numbered by ...
Category
2010s Romantic Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Color, Pigment, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment, Photo...
Italia 2 - Signed limited edition pigment print, Sculpture, Greek god, Mythology
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Italia 2 - Large scale photograph by Michael Banks
Archival Pigment print on fiber based paper ( Hahnemühle Photo RAG Baryta 315 gsm )
Limited Editions of 5 , signed + numbered by...
Category
2010s Romantic Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Paper, Color, Pigment, Archival Pigment, Di...
"Phalco's Look” Spaniel, Romantic Dog Photograph with beveled plexiglass frame
Located in Charleston, US
Alain Foussier, born in France living in the Netherlands, perfects the mood and spirit of Spaniel dogs with his portrait photography. His Spaniel dog a...
Category
2010s Romantic Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
"La Chasse Imaginaire” Spaniel Romantic Dog Photograph with plexiglass frame
Located in Charleston, US
Alain Foussier, born in France living in the Netherlands, perfects the mood and spirit of Spaniel dogs with his portrait photography. His Spaniel dog a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
"Major", Spaniel Romantic Dog Color Photograph with beveled plexiglass frame
Located in Charleston, US
Alain Foussier, born in France living in the Netherlands, perfects the mood and spirit of Spaniel dogs with his portrait photography. His Spaniel dog a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
"Resting" Spaniels, Romantic Dog Color Photograph with plexiglass frame
Located in Charleston, US
Alain Foussier, born in France living in the Netherlands, perfects the mood and spirit of Spaniel dogs with his portrait photography. His Spaniel dog a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Color Photography
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Photographic Paper
"Tweeluik", Two Spaniel Poses in Romantic Dog Photograph with plexiglass frame
Located in Charleston, US
Alain Foussier, born in France living in the Netherlands, perfects the mood and spirit of Spaniel dogs with his portrait photography. His Spaniel dog a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Color Photography
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Photographic Paper
"Major's Watchful Eye" Romantic Dog Color Photograph with plexiglass frame
Located in Charleston, US
Alain Foussier, born in France living in the Netherlands, perfects the mood and spirit of Spaniel and Scottie dogs with his portrait photography. His S...
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21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Color Photography
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Romance Photography Print Limited Edition Signed
Located in Slovak Republic, SK
Limited edition 10. Print, signed by the author.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper
"Phalco's Obsession" a Spaniel's Hedgehog photograph in beveled plexiglass frame
Located in Charleston, US
Alain Foussier, born in France living in the Netherlands, perfects the spirit of a hedgehog with his animal photography. This photograph of his Spaniel...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Otherworldly lovers, immobilised in marble, Dancing in blooming Garden
Located in London, GB
Handcoloured portrait of otherworldly lovers, immobilised in marble, dancing in blooming meadows. A whimsical tale of adoration, Ursa and her spiritual partner take visual cues from Titania and Bottom in Dieterle and Reinhartd’s 1936 interpretation of A Midsummer Nights Dream.
Taken from The Sialia Marbles, a series of portraits containing ephemeral human sculptures taken between 2016-19. Together these works act as tales contained in a fictional sculpture hall, in direct reaction to Andre Malraux’s 1947 Le Musee Imaginaire (Museum Without Walls).
Original title: URSA LOVES YOU, 2017
Hand-coloured Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemuhle Photorag
40.5 x 30.5 cm
Unique
Series: The Sialia Marbles
Signed and dated on verso
"I’m not a sculptor, but I wanted to construct my own stories. Photographers have often used sculpture in order to challenge our idea of a “sculptural” body or object, by casting them in a two-dimensional light. I love playing with perception. A lot of my work is influenced by the nineteenth century—the pictorialist movement for instance. When photography was a new experiment, people would play around with perception tricks—Victorian paper theaters...
Category
2010s Romantic Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Watercolor, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Lady Macbeth as Regal monarch immobilised in Marble with her reigning in Blooms
Located in London, GB
Katie Eleanor, ‘Your Hand, Your Tongue III’, 2017
Hand-coloured portrait of a regal monarch, immobilised in marble, her reigning celebrated the blooms she becomes entwined in. The characterisation is inspired by visual depictions of Lady Macbeth, in particular, John Singer Sargent’s 1889 portrait of actress Ellen Terry.
Taken from The Sialia Marbles, a series of portraits containing ephemeral human sculptures taken between 2016-19. Together these works act as tales contained in a fictional sculpture hall, in direct reaction to Andre Malraux’s 1947 Le Musee Imaginaire (Museum Without Walls).
Original title: 'Your Hand, Your Tongue’, 2017
Hand-coloured Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemuhle Photorag
40.5 x 30.5 cm
Unique
Series: The Sialia Marbles
Signed and dated on verso
"I’m not a sculptor, but I wanted to construct my own stories. Photographers have often used sculpture in order to challenge our idea of a “sculptural” body or object, by casting them in a two-dimensional light. I love playing with perception. A lot of my work is influenced by the nineteenth century—the pictorialist movement for instance. When photography was a new experiment, people would play around with perception tricks—Victorian paper theaters...
Category
2010s Romantic Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Watercolor, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Siren immobilised in marble locked in embrace and galleon ship in the background
Located in London, GB
Handcoloured portrait of a conjoined siren, immobilised in marble, locked in a sisterly embrace. Inspired by 19th-century cabinet cards, medical illustration, sweet singing Scottish Selkies, Lyra and her sister defend each other's isolation.
Taken from The Sialia Marbles, a series of portraits containing ephemeral human sculptures taken between 2016-19. Together these works act as tales contained in a fictional sculpture hall, in direct reaction to Andre Malraux’s 1947 Le Musee Imaginaire (Museum Without Walls).
Original title: 'Lyra’s Lips are as White as Mine’, 2019
Hand-coloured Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemuhle Photorag Fine Art Paper (100% cotton)
40.5 x 30.5 cm
Unique
Series: The Sialia Marbles
Signed and dated on verso
"I’m not a sculptor, but I wanted to construct my own stories. Photographers have often used sculpture in order to challenge our idea of a “sculptural” body or object, by casting them in a two-dimensional light. I love playing with perception. A lot of my work is influenced by the nineteenth century—the pictorialist movement for instance. When photography was a new experiment, people would play around with perception tricks—Victorian paper theaters...
Category
2010s Romantic Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Watercolor, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Regal monarch immobilised in marble with her reigning celebrated the blooms
Located in London, GB
Katie Eleanor, ‘Your Hand, Your Tongue’, 2017
Hand-coloured portrait of a regal monarch, immobilised in marble, her reigning celebrated the blooms she becomes entwined in. The characterisation is inspired by visual depictions of Lady Macbeth, in particular, John Singer Sargent’s 1889 portrait of actress Ellen Terry.
Taken from The Sialia Marbles, a series of portraits containing ephemeral human sculptures taken between 2016-19. Together these works act as tales contained in a fictional sculpture hall, in direct reaction to Andre Malraux’s 1947 Le Musee Imaginaire (Museum Without Walls).
Original title: 'Your Hand, Your Tongue’, 2017
Hand-coloured Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemuhle Photorag
40.5 x 30.5 cm
Unique
Series: The Sialia Marbles
Signed and dated on verso
"I’m not a sculptor, but I wanted to construct my own stories. Photographers have often used sculpture in order to challenge our idea of a “sculptural” body or object, by casting them in a two-dimensional light. I love playing with perception. A lot of my work is influenced by the nineteenth century—the pictorialist movement for instance. When photography was a new experiment, people would play around with perception tricks—Victorian paper theaters...
Category
2010s Romantic Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Photographic Paper, Watercolor
Billionaires Row Manhattan. Pot of Gold at the End of the Rainbow
Located in Miami, FL
Billionaires' Row skyscrapers shimmer in a rich golden light with later afternoon rainbow. The warm colors of the Central Park South skyline are offset by the vibrant green of the great lawn. It acts as a counterpoint to the buildings. At the end of the rainbow lies a lot of golden buildings. This is one of the most appropriate places for a rainbow to end. The pot of gold...
Category
2010s Romantic Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Lying in the Past
By Sarah Hadley
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Archival pigment print
Hand printed by Sarah Hadley on Canson Baryta Photo paper
From the series In Between Days
Sarah Hadley is a Los Angeles based artist whose narrative work focuses on issues of female identity and memory.
Hadley's photographs have been exhibited at the Milan Photo...
Category
2010s Romantic Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper
Billionaires Row - New York Skyline from Central Park
Located in Miami, FL
A familiar scene to all New Yorkers and millions of tourists is pictured in a way that none see with their own eyes in person. This luminous image of the Billionaires Row skyline is ...
Category
2010s Romantic Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Moody 59th Street Bridge
Located in Miami, FL
Moody Manhattan.
Signed dated and numbered 2/15 lower right recto, other sizes available, unframed Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
Mitchell Funk is a pioneer of " Color Photogr...
Category
Early 2000s Romantic Color Photography
Materials
Inkjet
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